In that case there is a limited number of approaches which you could take to this. I can immediately think of these three.

  1. Use your current strategy to parse the pflogsumm output. This means that you can leverage the options to pflogsumm to help you structure the data in the most useful way to you. Be aware that it is prone to breakage if the output format ever changes.
  2. Modify (a copy of) pflogsumm so that it either outputs precisely what you want or even performs the whole task for you including the database insertion. pflogsumm is written in Perl which makes this option less daunting that it would otherwise be.
  3. Ignore pflogsumm and read the mail log directly. There is Mail::Log::Parse::Postfix which might help with this (I've not used it so YMMV).

Good luck with your project.

In reply to Re^3: Loop problem: jumps one record by hippo
in thread Loop problem: jumps one record by Anonymous Monk

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.